Intern - Ticket Sales, HBCU Pathways

This is a Part Time Unpaid Internship

Job Description:

The Ticket Sales intern will support revenue producing actions of an NBA front office sales team. This includes campaign planning across departments, sales event support, sales competition culture assistance, and experience 2-week onboarding training for entry level sales role including scripting, product knowledge and professional development.

At the end of their position, they should have a full understanding of an entry level sales program, technical and transferable skills of a revenue department, and effective communication skills specific to relationship building and selling oneself or your ideas.

Key Responsibilities:

Event Operations:
• Aid in ideation around new business and member events
• Lead event day operations for smooth process/data collection
• Communicate effectively between event management and sales teams for pre/post-event feedback

Campaign Creation & Tracking:
• Research new business market trends and provide insight into culture of college student buying habits, especially HBCU students
• Support Ticket Sales leadership in campaign activation and organization
• Track and report campaign success

Culture Planning:
• Support Ticket Sales leadership in team building outings
• Assist in sales competition activation and execution to contribute to positive, motivating culture

Participation:
• Participate in sales training for entry-level and senior-level sales reps, including scripting, product knowledge, professional development
• Handle inbound sales calls/incoming emails and perform outbound sales calls for practice and market research

Requirements:
• Must be enrolled in an accredited Historically Black College or University (HBCU) as a rising Junior and Senior.
• Must live in the metro-Atlanta area during the internship and able to work evenings, weekends, and holidays.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Word, Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams)
• Ability to work collaboratively and quickly with multiple teams.
• High level of integrity to be trusted with important roles at events and confidential information.

Preferred Qualifications:
• Proficiency in Salesforce preferred.
• Extremely coachable and open to learning a sales process.
• Enjoys speaking to and meeting new people and excited to get out of comfort zone.
• Organized, creative, enthusiastic, and strong interpersonal skills.
• Ability to handle multiple projects at once.
• Positive and mature attitude with team-first mentality.

We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, disability, gender identity, marital or veteran status, or any other protected class.

If this opportunity looks exciting to you, please complete the application process. Go Hawks!